I've just discovered that I've been an unwitting participant in an identity theft.
But not, perhaps, in the way that you might imagine.
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Trigger happy hosting / spam @ The Guardian
Two spam related pieces of information today.
The first concerns what happens if you're hosted at an ISP with an anti-spam policy, an itchy-trigger finger, and a support desk that is devoid of clue.
It appears as though the fine folk over at The Weekly had their infrastructure on a shared server at their ISP, HostingPlex. That same server was then used by a spammer to send spam, which was caught by SpamCop. Rather than track down the actual culprits, HostingPlex have locked The Weekly's account, and are demanding US$150 to reinstate access to the server, while ignoring repeated e-mails from The Weekly that contain what appears to be pretty straightforward evidence of their innocence.
I paraphase somewhat, you can read the The Weekly's side of the story for yourself.
In other news, "Thoughts on stopping spam" appeared, somewhat edited, as an article in The Guardian yesterday.
The first concerns what happens if you're hosted at an ISP with an anti-spam policy, an itchy-trigger finger, and a support desk that is devoid of clue.
It appears as though the fine folk over at The Weekly had their infrastructure on a shared server at their ISP, HostingPlex. That same server was then used by a spammer to send spam, which was caught by SpamCop. Rather than track down the actual culprits, HostingPlex have locked The Weekly's account, and are demanding US$150 to reinstate access to the server, while ignoring repeated e-mails from The Weekly that contain what appears to be pretty straightforward evidence of their innocence.
I paraphase somewhat, you can read the The Weekly's side of the story for yourself.
In other news, "Thoughts on stopping spam" appeared, somewhat edited, as an article in The Guardian yesterday.
Thoughts on stopping spam
I was pinged on IRC earlier today by someone who was having an e-mail discussion with Charles Arthur of the Guardian, in response to this article on Six steps to stopping spam. Since I spend a lot of my day job doing anti-spam engineering for a large organisation, Robbie thought that I might have some useful comment.
I've fired an e-mail off, which I reproduce below, in the hope that it might be useful to a wider audience.
I've fired an e-mail off, which I reproduce below, in the hope that it might be useful to a wider audience.
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